Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of Skin Anarchy. I'm really excited because we're welcoming back a guest that I truly believe is a leading voice in the space about menopause and the conversation around menopause. She is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, author, and just so into women's health advocacy. Welcome back, Tampson.

I'm so excited to host you and to dive into your book today.

Thank you so much for having me.

Yeah, it's always an honor to host you, and I love learning from you,

and I'm so excited that you wrote a book.

You know, I can't wait to learn about it,

and that's kind of where I want to start off.

Can you tell me what led up to you wanting to take the step and go into this journey?

Yeah. I mean, I think the journey happened to me. And that's where it really all began. I wound up and I think I probably told you this before, but I landed on the floor of the news studio one night, not knowing what was wrong with me,

not knowing it was menopause at all, just knowing that didn't feel right, felt like my heart

was racing out of control, and just couldn't get it together. And I had a hot flash that was so intense.

If you've had one of those, you know exactly what I'm talking about, where your whole body just

breaks out into a sweat. And yeah, it was a scary moment. I went doctor to doctor thinking,

what is going on? I've been having problem sleeping. I've been stressed out. If not feeling good,

I was put on antidepressants. And it turns out I got four notes and four words, my patient portal

that said, didn in menopause any

questions. And so, of course, I had lots of questions because I had no idea. And then, you know,

what I really found out is my story was anything but unique is that so many women with many

worse symptoms than what I had experienced had been dealing with this and dealing with it for

years because, you know, what I didn't know is

there was a thing called pari menopause. That came to me as something that I needed to solve for

myself and along the way found an entire community. That's, yeah, that's got to be like so scary,

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